What is the Angus Reid Forum?

The Angus Reid Forum is Canada's leading online market research community, giving fellow Canadians the opportunity to participate in surveys and discussions that will influence the brands, products, and services we all use every day!

Why Join?

Joining the Angus Reid Forum allows you to voice your opinions along with other forum members from across Canada. This collective feedback will
get to the companies and policymakers who shape our country’s future – your opinions will make an impact! Plus, as a thank you for participating you’ll be rewarded with Survey Dollars and entries into contests.

Opinions in Action

Canadians split on whether Canada should remain a monarchy

Prince William is the most popular royal

Canadians are evenly split on whether Canada should remain a
monarchy (34%) or have an elected head of state (34%). A further 32 per cent
are either not sure or feel it makes no difference to them. Older Canadians age
55+ (46%) are significantly more likely than those 35-54 (32%) or 18-34 (22%) to
think Canada should remain a monarchy.

Prince William is the most popular royal with 71 per cent of
Canadians having a favourable opinion of him. More women (79%) than men (62%)
have a favourable opinion of Prince William. Queen Elizabeth II is also very
popular with Canadians. Sixty-eight per cent say they have a favourable
impression of her. Seventy-eight per cent of older Canadians, age 55+, compared
to 70 per cent of 35-54 year olds and 55 per cent of those 18-34, have a favourable
impression of Queen Elizabeth II.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles have much
higher unfavourable ratings. Forty-five per cent and 42 per cent respectively,
of Canadians say they have an unfavourable impression of them.

One-in-five Canadians would like to see Prince Charles
becoming King after Queen Elizabeth II. This is half the number (41%) who would
like to see Prince William become King. Over one-in-four Canadians believe
there should be no monarch after Queen Elizabeth II. Men (35%) are
significantly more likely than women (22%) to believe there should be no
monarch after Queen Elizabeth II.

Less than half (44%) of Canadians support reopening Canada’s
constitutional debate to discuss the possibility of replacing the monarch with
an elected head of state. Men (53%) are significantly more likely than women
(35%) to support reopening the debate. As Canadians get older the more likely
they are to oppose reopening the debate; older Canadians are also surer of
their opinion with the number saying they are not sure decreasing by age.

Methodology

From May 8th to May
11th 2015 an online survey was conducted among 1,005 randomly
selected Canadian adults who are Angus Reid Forum panelists. The margin of error—which
measures sampling variability—is ±3.1%, 19 times out of 20. The results have
been statistically weighted according to education, age, gender and region (and
in Quebec, language) Census data to ensure a sample representative of the
entire adult population of Canada. Discrepancies in or between totals are due
to rounding.